Music students at Jackson Heights Elementary School in Red Bluff and Susan B. Anthony Elementary School in Sacramento will soon be hitting new notes, thanks to Music and Arts Grants from California Casualty. Instructors will use their $250 award to purchase musical instruments for their classes.

Red Bluff Elementary EA President Catherine Piffero; teacher Cathy Van Lente; and California Casualty’s Christy Forward.

“I will be able to incorporate music into my curriculum,” says Jackson Heights Elementary kindergarten teacher Cathy Van Lente, Red Bluff Elementary Educators Association. “I’ll be able to teach basic rhythm to my students.”

Susan B. Anthony Elementary School music instructor Cindee Stewart, Sacramento City Teachers Association, says, “This is such an amazing gift. Our students will learn to make amazing music and develop a love for music with their new recorders.”

Raisin City Elementary School in Raisin City, Fresno County, received a grant that will go toward a garden art project.

Music instructor Cindee Stewart, Sacramento City TA; and California Casualty’s Amanda Keidel.

Forty schools across California received 2019 Music and Arts Grants, for a total of $10,000. The grant is designed to foster creativity in schools, in areas such as choir, band, dance, film, theater, computer arts and graphics, or any K-12 curriculum that employs art for learning.

California Casualty hopes to fill the gap as schools have reduced funding for the arts.

“Students love to showcase their creativity, and helping educators keep music and arts in the forefront of everyday learning is absolutely the right thing for us to do,” says Brian Goodman, California Casualty assistant vice president.

California K-12 public schools needing funding for arts or performance programs can apply for the 2020 Music and Arts Grant from California Casualty at calcasmusicartsgrant.com. The deadline is June 30, 2020.

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